POLITICS: Campaigning in Iowa, Mitt Romney tells farmers that cap-and-trade “will take millions of acres out of farming,” and warns that the EPA “wants to regulate dust”; meanwhile, President Obama talks about climate change action in Ohio. (ClimateWire)

OIL: North Dakota lawmakers promote tax breaks for new refineries that process oil from in-state, and the EPA wants Enbridge to dredge 100 acres of Michigan’s Kalamazoo River still contaminated with oil from a 2010 spill. (Associated Press, InsideClimate News)